[g-a-devel]Re: PrinterApplet-Accessibility

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>]

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> CC: Padraig Obriain sun com, parag kabra wipro com
> Subject: Re: PrinterApplet-Accessibility
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Will this be sufficient?
> > 
> > Will an AT be able to report information so that, say, a blind user will
> > be able
> > to figure out that it is a printer applet?
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >      Inviting your comments
> > > The applet has a GTKDrawingArea,
> > > AtkImage Interface has to be provided for the "GtkDrawingArea" widget, 
since
> > > the "printer image" is drawn on the drawing area created by this widget. 
The
> > > Printer Image (print.xpm) is drawn on this drawing area by 
gdk_draw_pixmap.
> 
> A few more thoughs on the above 
> 
> + I think the tooltip for the print button is taken from the text that
> appears in the button. This text can be modified in the properties box.
> The same(tooltip's text) can be used by the AT as the Applet
> Description, so the Accessible name and Accessible Descriptioon need not
> be set here. (?)
> 
> + The properties box has two GtkEntry widgets. I think a call to
> gtk_label_set_mnemonic_widget() will set the relation.
> 
> + As Parag has mentioned I agree that an AtkImage interface is requered
> to get the co-ordinates & size.
> 
> + Should a description for GtkDrawingArea be set to something like "Drag
> and drop the files you want to print here" or something better :). So a
> person would know that files could be dropped here for printing. 
> 
> + It is possible to right click on the print button. Is an AtkAction
> Interface required here ?

If right click pops up a menu, then Shift+F10 should also pop up the menu when 
the button has focus, so there should not be a need for AtkActionInterface.

Padraig
 
> Please comment on the above.
> 
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Raj.